In 2003, Mark and Michael Polish made Northfork, though just barely. The brothers — who are also responsible for art-house fave Twin Falls Idaho, about conjoined twins who fall for the same woman — ...

OK, don’t make a mistake: this isn’t really a movie about space. The Astronaut Farmer is the quintessential American Story. That’s right; it’s the classic, archetypical, consummate, perfected American ...

"The Astronaut Farmer" is a surefire test of our ability to believe in anyone with a dream -- including a soft-spoken Texan who figures if he points his homemade rocket in the right direction and ...

After 20 years of playing salacious characters in eccentric films, Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen are breaking into the mainstream. Thornton, who is also a writer and director, received his ...

This family film about a former astronaut determined to get into space on his own was made by the sibling team of Michael and Mark Polish (they wrote and Michael directed), normally creators of ...

Billy Bob Thornton has agreed to star in Warner Independent Pictures' drama The Astronaut Farmer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie centres on a farmer (Thornton) who dreams of achieving ...

The fourth film from Mark and Michael Polish will very likely alienate fans of their earlier work, who will wonder what became of their rueful inscrutability and scoff at the cornpone, ...